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Joined: 6 Sep 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 22 Sep 2011
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Posts: Total: 19 / In This Archive: 11 		From: Bath, Somerset, UK
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Somerset   
6 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

i can tell you that i know for some people in Serbia who are frustrated about their ancestry and has some frictions within themselves when it comes to mixed Jewish-Serbian marriages. If father is a Jew he don`t insist that much about Jewish nationality

My father is actualy a Serb and my mother Jewish lol. kako si brat? ti si srbin? My mother raised me Jewishm, but i rebelled against the whole Jewish religion thing in my teens. Don't belive in any religion but I still respect my Jewish and Serbian roots .

And I have the most un Jewish surname possible, It means Christmas (Bozic) in Serbian.
Somerset   
6 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

You innitialy didn`t grow up in the spirit of Serbian traditional family. tell me, did your father explained concept of Serbian SLAVA to you?

Not really as my mother raised me in England and my father left when I was very young. He always spoke to me in English, but I have tought myself some Serbian. He is from Banja Luka originally. my mother is from Israel (Polish Parents).
Somerset   
10 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]

Turns out you Poles didn't really want the Jews back, my great-grandfather was a medic in the Polish army in the mid 30s and they used to beat him every night in a sack shouthing 'filhy zyd!.My grandfather's brother died fighting for Poland in '39, and when his famaily came back to ostrolenka after escaping to Russia during the war they were treated with nothing but contempt.

Maybe my grandpraents should have come back from being refugeess in Siberia to this? A nice warm welcome.



PS Jews were just sick and tired of being treated like crap,tossed from place to place at the whim of repressive anti semetic governments,tsars and kings, Zionism did not start becuase of the holocoust, it began in the 1880s.

And as DE comes from the States I took "we in the west" to refer to USA, although of course GB has responsibility too.

Britain was opposed to the creation of the state of Israel, after the Arab rebellion of 1936-39 they became pro arab, the Jews did it with their own toil and sweat. British officers were leading the Arab Jordanian Legion in the war of 1948 and refused to regonise Israel until 1951.
Somerset   
11 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

The Russians saved my grandparents so I will forever be grateful.

Many? So far, we have one. More sources, please. :):):):)

My great uncle was in the resistance, he was a Jew. there were thousands of Jews fighting In the Armija Kraina and with the Soviet Partizans against the nazis. never heard of the warsaw ghetto rising or the bieslki brothers?
Somerset   
15 Sep 2011
History / Poland Lithuania - current relations [124]

MyMom

actually up until the end of the 19th centuary Vilnius had a Jewish majority, even in 1939 it was 30 % Jewish and 65 % Polish lithuanian facists only made up 0.8 %.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius#Demographics
Somerset   
20 Sep 2011
Real Estate / Is there any chance I would be able to reclaim my grandfathers old house in Ostrolenka? [17]

All I know, is that in 1939 the Germans came for 2 weeks, ripped out my great-grandfathers gold teeth, looted the place and his were deported across to the border to Russia for the duration of the war.

I know my grandmothers place in Pinsk was flattened by the war, but there are still some valuables her father hid there, lying in the ground somwhere, maybe I will go to Pinsk to look for it.